Motivational Quotes

Death

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Death

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Macdonald, George

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dickens, Charles

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Donne, John

10.

Life is a loss of time.

Kocher, Gerhard

11.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

13.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]

Bible

14.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

15.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Lawrence, D. H.

16.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Pamela Ribon

17.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

18.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

19.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

20.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Steve Jobs

21.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

22.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Merton, Thomas

23.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

24.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

25.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

26.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

27.

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

28.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

29.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

30.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

31.

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

32.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

33.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Bacon, Francis

34.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

36.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

37.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

Bible

38.

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

39.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Gray, Thomas

41.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

42.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

43.

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

44.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

45.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

David Assael

46.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

47.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

48.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann